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My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics

YES – My Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ IS My Strong Tower. He guides me. He directs me. He leads me. He is my Creator. He is my Provider. He is Eternal. He is Almighty. There is nobody that is greater than He.

4 years ago this week in August of 2006 He began the process to effectively put an end to my previous life. I’ve been celebrating my rebirthing not just this past week or this past month, but since the new beginning. The celebration is eternal.

Ever since I was a little kid I always believed in God’s existence. That’s because people told me that He existed. I think that if you ask 10 random people in the world today 9 of them would state that they believe in God, but how many of those 9 out of 10 actually know Him ?  How many of those 9 out of 10 actually follow Him because they truly wish to be more like Him ?  The numerical answer to that question is irrelevant, but your life should not be irrelevant. It should be relevant – so relevant that God truly knows who you are – and you truly know who He is and what His purpose for your Life is.

I didn’t know God before August of 2006, but now I do. Every week for the past 15 months here on this blog I’ve been writing about The God that I know and love. God called on me to be a Disciple here on Earth. He directed me to go forth and be His arms, hands, legs, and feet as I Live The Good News. If just one life was saved out there in the world because he or she read something that I wrote on here about God then it was all worth it. 

I should never get too comfortable as I walk this journey, for God loves new directions and new beginnings. As a result of a lot of thinking – and speaking to God about how I can better minister to the world in the future – I’ve decided to end this weekly blog post. This becomes the 67TH and final weekly edition of “My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics”. This journey that God created for me continues infinitely into the light, and I can’t wait to see what’s in store for me just around the corner. With God leading me there it can only be GREAT !

Thank You for reading these words over the past 15 months. They were sent from Up Above. They come from The Truth. They are of The Good News.

May the Grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s holy people. AMEN.

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My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics

This morning at my church service the Pastor taught from the latter portion of Ephesians 6 on ‘The Whole Armor Of God’. This is one of the first parts of Scripture that I ever read and studied in depth on my fantastic journey.

This week I’m celebrating the 4-year / 48-month anniversary of when my Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ rescued me from evil and darkness, saved me, and told me to believe in Him and follow Him towards The Light. I did, and 5 months later I went public with my faith by attending a church service for the first time in over 30 years. That was on Sunday January 21ST 2007. About 3 months after that I bought my very first Bible ever – “New Believer’s Bible: First Steps For New Christians” – at the Living Way Bible Bookstore in Downtown Homestead. About a month later the very first person that I formally met at that very first church service – Anne J. – bought me a really nice bible cover to protect my valuable investment in The Truth. Inscribed on the lower-right-hand corner of the front of the Bible cover is a sword pointing to ‘Eph. 6:17’. As soon as I saw that I went to the Scripture, and I let The Truth soak in to my heart and my soul. It read, “Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of The Spirit, which is the Word Of God.”

In an unloving and an uncaring secular world I knew that as an outsider of the world I would need His armor to protect myself from the persistent enemy and his legion of followers that lurk in the darkness all around me. While the world rejected me over and over again, that same world wants me back – so that it can use me all over again. I refuse to give in. I refuse to go back to the lies. I refuse to be a servant of this world. I stand before God The Almighty One. I walk in peace as a Disciple of God. I am in this spiritual battle until the very end, and I will ensure that ‘The Whole Armor Of God’ is ON !

I’m forgiven. Because You were forsaken
I’m accepted. You were condemned
I’m alive and well. Your Spirit is within me
Because You died and rose again

It’s In The Lyrics:

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My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics

A friend of mine (and fellow believer) recently stated that if your Life (as a believer) actually makes sense to a non-believer then you must be doing something wrong. That is as true as can be.

If you look and sound just like everyone else of this world then you must be a follower of this world. That’s serving two masters.

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
26  Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you.
27  Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And He chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful.
28  God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.
29  As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.
30  God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made Him to be Wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; He made us pure and holy, and He freed us from sin.
31  Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the LORD.”

God created us in His own image. He sacrificed His One and Only Son – so that we can Live a full Life. He didn’t create us to be just like everyone else of this world. He created each and every one of us with our own mind, heart, and soul.

They conform
Un-individuality
They conform
Forget about variety
Yeah they conform
They don’t know what they believe
They conform
They conform
They conform

So I’m anticonformity
I don’t try too hard to be
I’m not what you think you see
Inside I’ve made a change
And I’ll never be the same
No way !

It’s in the lyrics:

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My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics

As we begin this 8TH month of 2010 today I move a little closer to the remarkable 4-year / 48-month anniversary of my fantastic journey. It was the 3RD week of August of 2006 when my life as I knew it ended, and a new Life began. God rescued and saved me from evil and darkness. He told me to follow Him. He said that He would lead me towards the light of The Truth. He asked me to believe in Him. After more than 39 years of life on His Earth I finally did. I surrendered to Him. When the world around me rejected me God accepted me.

That’s exactly what He will do for you as well – if you would just let Him. When your friends abandon you. When the world rejects you. When you’re lonely. There’s a Kingdom all around you that’s more powerful than you can ever imagine. God will wait for you. When you’re ready –  He’s ready to lead you.

Give me Your eyes for just one second
Give me Your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me Your love for humanity

Give me Your arms for the broken hearted
The ones that are far beyond my reach ?
Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me Your eyes so I can see

It’s in the lyrics: